Question

Ask questions to humans. Somebody has to select one of the specified answers typing the character(s) in the square brackets.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'questions'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it via:

$ gem install questions

Usage

Preamble

require "questions"
include Questions

Long way

q = Question.new("File does exist, what should be done?")
q.answers = [:skip, :overwrite, :abort]
answer = q.ask
# SHELL:
# $ File does exist, what should be done? [s]kip, [o]verwrite, [a]bort
# s<enter>
answer #=> :skip

Short way

answer = Question.ask "File does exist, what should be done?", [:skip, :overwrite, :abort]
# SHELL:
# $ File does exist, what should be done? [s]kip, [o]verwrite, [a]bort
# s<enter>
answer #=> :skip

Hashish way

answer = Question.ask "File does exist, what should be done?", skip: true, overwrite: false, abort: true
# SHELL:
# $ File does exist, what should be done? [s]kip, [a]bort
# s<enter>
answer #=> :skip

Way with reaction

case Question.ask "Please select:", [:next, :exit]
when :next then next
when :exit then exit
end

Contributing

Fork it
Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature-[short_description] or git checkout -b fix-[github_issue_number]-[short_description])
Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature with tests')
Push to the branch (git push origin [branch-name])
Create new Pull Request

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